#12hrs

[anef-29]

Gods won't see.

[beetlejuce]

TJ MIKELOGAN's HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT ↳ Day 1: Go-to Halloween movie

HOCUS POCUS (1993) - dir. Kenny Ortega

[tradingjack]

From the firmament above, a blood-red eye looks down upon us.

[alishabeegum]

"IT DOESN'T SUCK MAAAAARCKUS!!! YOOOOOU SUCK" - My friend who has now adopted this as apart of their vocabulary 😎

Another Work sketchbook page from a 'Typical attempt at a gamer podcast'. Had A LOT of fun with the funny colours and little bits :D

[Solid colour background in undercut]

[star-spangled-man]

this is me when billie hits those notes in chihiro and the greatest if you even care

[cherriko-art]

"The Kiss"

[jinji-ia]

天運 | Nothing's Impossible! 🌟 | INPRNT

[solardrake]

INTERNATIONAL LOVER

Friendly Fire for RockShun on Art Fight!

[anmolsmsblog]

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[adachimoe]

The effort this dumbass put into this

Honestly, yeah. What is the player by this point in time, if not a huge dumbass?

Adachi's letter only continues if you've gotten him to rank 9 by this point. This involves getting him to rank 6 by his hard cut off date and then going to see him alone on December 7th and seeing his arcana transform.

Earlier in his Social Link, Adachi talks about his school life. As he says, you can only get back what you put in - if you put in effort to studying, then you get grades. And in his experience, this is exactly what he did. But as he remarks, this only worked at school and it doesn't translate to the real world.

In the 3rd Persona 4 audio drama cd, which was released before Golden even!, Adachi's dialogue talks about effort. His commentary is, more or less, that things are not worth it unless there's some kind of reward: He mocks the protagonist for running at full speed during the relay that has no reward, but thinks it's okay for Dojima and Nanako to try and win the 3-legged-race because they can win a free night at the Amagi's.

In some ways, I think you can relate this to the Social Link system as a whole: We tell our Social Links things they like to hear during mostly one sided conversations where they talk, we occasionally respond, and we get rank ups for our troubles. But obviously, this only works in the game. (Tbh tho, in real life, you can leave people on read for 5 years before resuming their Social Links.) Things require more effort - caring, giving a shit, more than a one sided conversation.

Adachi's Social Link starts off the same - we invite him over for dinner, we tell him responses he likes to hear, and we get rank ups as our rewards. On rank 7 and 8, there are no points to be earned. We simply assume that, based on Adachi's dialogue, he must give a shit about us, and his Social Link advances on its own.

When his Social Link transforms, he asks us what the hell kind of brain damage we have to assume our bond with him was really that tight. "You get back what you put in" - we put the time to go see him here, against our friends' wishes even, and we don't get a rank up here. But the nature of our relationship changes with him and his arcana changes into Lust or Hunger.

By the end of the game, when Adachi calls us a dumbass, it's cause we honestly are 100% a bunch of dumbasses. In order to get this guy to talk to us in any way whatsoever, we have to go through his stupid Social Link requirements where he has limited availability and it swaps between day / night, where you sometimes don't even know what to do because Atlus was too fucking stupid to program in a tell to go do his hangout during the night (or maybe that was intentional idk), and also do this all by a certain deadline while juggling all of the other bullshit going on in the game and the scheduling. And on top of it all, you are then given the option to go against your friends wishes and continue reaching out to him even after finding out he kicked off all of the events of the game that nearly got Nanako killed and endangered the rest of your party members, plus he tried to bait you into killing Namatame.

It goes without saying that the effort that you have put into this relationship is significantly higher than whatever Adachi has put in. And as he says himself, you get back what you put in. Despite what the player has put in, we've gotten a lot of nothing back. He, uh, came over and bummed free dinners and tried to get Nanako in on his low effort game by telling her to cheat on a book report. That's like, gotta be a negative gain lmao.

To have gone out of your way to try and get this guy's Social Link rank ups and talk to him even after the reveal and after you've already gotten so little out of this... Yeah okay honestly what are we if not a bunch of dumbasses by this point. Like I'm 352 posts into this blog and Adachi isn't even going to throw me into a TV god what's the point even.

But at the same time, Adachi appreciates how big of a dumbass we are when it comes to him. He doesn't call us a dumbass because he hates us, he calls us a dumbass because of how much effort we've put into this relationship. A level of effort that he himself scoffed at, but now causes him to reflect back on the time he spent with us and sees it more fondly. He couldn't see what he had until he didn't have it anymore.

Adachi will send you the letter urging you to reach out the truth and finish the case so long as you're doing the true ending. It's a scene from the PS2 game and it doesn't matter if you've done his Social Link or not. In Persona Club P4, Atlus remarks on how the caution tape in his dungeon hints that deep down inside, he *is* still a detective. Him sending the letter is proof of that - he wants you to solve the mystery. But if you complete his Social Link, the letter continues with this new segment, and I think this changes the nature of his letter: Having put the effort in to him with not much to show for it, we, at long last, get something from him.

And of course, as P4AU implies, he has become something of a "dumbass" himself in regards to expending unnecessary effort on things no one asks you to do.

Btw, the way Madono calls you an idiot in the Japanese audio is pretty great. The way he draws out vowels as Adachi in general I think really helps sell the playfulness.

[cinematicnomad]

ughhhh i'm about to head to the airport for the first of THREE flights to get back home. i was on a later flight originally but i switched to an earlier one bc i was worried my layover in beijing would be too tight but now i have an extra long layover bc there just weren't any better options. this means from the point i leave my hotel to when i, probably, arrive back at my apartment i will have been traveling...~36ish hours? kill me!!

[ace-up-your-sleeve]

boyfriends being any distance away from each other is homophobic and awful, doesn't matter if its 15 minutes or on the other side of the world 😭

[tevanbuckley]

in an attempt to calm people's fear about the show making tommy the bad guy, i'm just gonna point to this (x) interview from tim.

Tommy's older and Buck is very new to this, and whether Tommy was correct or not, I think what he felt like was exactly what he said...and I think based on what we know of Buck, he's maybe not wrong. Tommy's a little older and wiser or maybe at some level he feels like he doesn't deserve Buck, I don't know. But I think he accurately diagnosed Buck. Buck's still figuring himself out, and boy, that would be quite risky to move in with that guy as much as you would love to.

and yeah, yeah they talk out of their ass a lot, but oliver said something very similar (x).

Tommy's trying to protect himself and I think that's a totally fair thing to want to do. And he will always...be such a meaningful person in Buck's life because of that. And now Buck has to take some steps on his own and really find out who he is and who he wants to be with.

neither of which scream, "oh yeah tommy's such an asshole, fuck that guy." regardless of if they get back together, they both seem to interpret his actions as justified. and even if we have (justifiable) criticisms of the framing of "bi guy needs multiple partners to figure himself out", the show seems to be treating it earnestly.

and yeah, madney tell him he needs to move on in the sneak peek, but he's also clearly spiraling/not in a good place, and 'move on' isn't exactly unreasonable advice in that situation imo.

[loonyloopylupin96]

I thought I was going to struggle reading another long fic after Wading but it's actually okay.

[goodworkperky]

"Hey," Sarah says almost nervously as soon Bucky picks up the phone. "I'm sorry to do this but the boys wanted to talk to you before they went to bed."

Bucky is quite literally looking down a sniper scope at an arm's dealer halfway around the world from the Wilson home. "I said you guys can call anytime, Sarah. I meant it," he says quietly. "Put 'em on."

A beat.

"Uncle Buck," the boys chime in unison before they start speaking simultaneously, each trying to shout over the other.

Bucky laughs under his breath. "One at a time."

"Are you fighting bad guys, Uncle Buck?" Cass asks just as AJ asks, "Are you coming back?"

"Yes and yes," Bucky answers. "And I expect your mom to tell me you guys have been best behavior when I get there."

The boys promise and wish him good night before they are off to bed.

"Thank you," Sarah says with a note of humor as the boys run off.

"Any time." A beat. "Hope the boys weren't the only ones that wanted to call."

She hums a laugh that makes his heart flutter. "Sam told me you were working. I didn't want to be a distraction."

"I can multitask. Unless this turns into one of those 'what are you wearing' calls."

"Not unless I change out of an old tee that smells like a deep fryer."

"Sexy," Bucky says without a hint of sarcasm.

Sarah laughs easily. "I can't with you." A beat. "Call me when you're not busy saving people?"

Finger rests on the trigger. "Then we'll be here all day. How about we settle for tomorrow morning?"

"It's a date." Sarah says earnestly, "Stay safe, Buchanan. I'd hate for anything to happen to you."

"I promised I'd come back, didn't I? Have some faith in me, Sarah."

"I always do."